Eyewitness accounts of viewing pictures

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Source: Jack London, The Valley of the Moon (New York: The Review of Reviews Company, 1917 [orig. pub. 1913]), p. 279 Text: They bought reserved tickets at Bell’s Theater; but it was too early for the performance, and they went … Continue reading →

Source: Thomas Baird, ‘Speedsters Replace Cowboys’, World Film and Television Progress, vol. 2 no. 12 (March 1938), p. 20 Text: A little over twenty years ago, I started to go to the pictures. I was then a small boy living … Continue reading →

Source: Robert Batchford, My Eighty Years (London: Cassell, 1931), pp. 253-254 Text: After tea we realized that we were both tired and went into a kinema to rest. Oh, that theatre! Oh, that whirling, scurrying, unmeaning show, that surely was … Continue reading →

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Source: Burton E. Stevenson, The Charm of Ireland (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1915), pp. 396-397 Text: We went to a picture-show at Sligo, that night, and I have never seen a livelier audience. There was, of course, a … Continue reading →

Source: J.P. Mayer, Sociology of Film: Studies and Documents (London: Faber and Faber, 1946), pp. 136-138 Text: Another possibility of getting at the children’s film taste is by listing their answers to question 23 of our questionnaire. They are as … Continue reading →

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Source: Ricky Tomlinson, Ricky (London: Time Warner Books, 2003), pp. 23-24 Text: My other escape was the cinema where it cost only a couple coppers to go to a Saturday matinee at the Everton Picture Palace. As well as the … Continue reading →